iFontMaker and what I’ve made so far with it
I’m a hobbyist typographer. The first piece of commercial software I bought with my own money was Altsys’ Fontographer. (aside: I just checked, and a new company is selling an updated version, and for quite a bit of money. )
Anyway, as a youngster interested in fonts, I produced a small handful of typefaces that I updated as needed. Many years later I found into what we now call FontForge and managed to produce a typeface or two. While the application itself is the right price (open source and free) and extremely full featured, the unix/X11 interface was new for me, so I had a learning curve to overcome to finish anything. More recently, my interest was raised again by FontStruct. I produced several typefaces, most notably for me was netlabel square ends with 1104 glyphs drawn.
Most recently, the iPad has opened up another opportunity to create typefaces with the reasonably priced iFontMaker. I love this app. It’s awesome. Here’s a demo video they just released:
It’s so easy and fun to use, that I’ve produced these so far.
Download Cooley Questionable Sans
Download Cooley Greeting Card Serif
Download Cooley Greeting Card Sans
Download Cooley Inconsistent Double
Download Cooley Slowball … or not.
Download Cooley Aloha, although this is a work in progress
